After that last Challenge, it’s time for some fun. As I read and write and wander about, I often come across things that I have to look up. This week’s Challenge questions aren’t especially hard, but as always, be sure to verify that you found the co…
Many thanks to Remmij…… who in a comment earlier this week correctly pointed out that GeoGebras ARE embeddable in regular web pages. The links Remmij gave in the comments to Wednesday’s post were exactly what we need to let us embed a GeoGebra int…
The FIA Innovation Spark Grant Competition winners presented their final presentations on May 5, 2017. Members of the four winning teams were named FIA Innovation Fellows and shared up to $10,000 per team in stipends and expenses to carry out their projects aimed at using virtual and augmented reality to address real-world challenges.
Okay… it’s NOT May 1!Sorry about not posting on Monday, but it’s been a hectic week. Besides, I’ve enjoyed reading everyone’s comments on the Challenge. Not only is work busy (and I have a strange cold), but this Challenge is proving to be waaay to…
Since there’s so much interest… … and since we seem to be making progress (see the comments in the last two posts), I’m going to continue this Challenge until next week. My answer / analysis will be posted on Monday, May 1st. (We’re so close. Ke…
Let’s work on this a bit longer… Remember that the SearchResearch Challenge this week is to figure out how to make an interactive widget that can interactively show the relationship between height and visible distance in the “island viewing” problem….
I found myself trying to explain… … the “how high you have to be above the shore to see the Farallons” SRS Challenge to a friend. You remember the original Challenge about seeing the Farallons. The question there was “can you see the Farallon Isl…
True, or False? Answering these three questions was pretty straightforward. But as I discovered in the comments, our Regular Readers went farther into these topics than I ever imagined. Bravo, Readers! Bravo! Let’s see what we can discover to answe…
True, or False? One of the biggest questions in these slightly strained days of fake news is whether or not something is true. Without getting all epistemological on you, for this week’s Challenge I have a few questions that have come up in my readin…
Zounds!It’s true: some plants DO explode, including ones that look quiet and serene in botanical gardensWaimea ArboretumAs I did this research, the biggest surprise to me was that there are a LOT of plants that explode. Luckily, most of them are reaso…
Crack…. Zing!I’d been walking through a quiet and peaceful botanical garden when it sounded like something blew up not far from me. What’s going on?? A millisecond later I heard something whizzing overhead–an angry bee sound of something passing o…
Even more details… Often, as we do research (especially of the SearchResearch kind), the little details of the Challenge turn out to be important. This is especially the case when you’re trying to figure out where a particular picture has been tak…
Details. Details. Details. Often, as we do research (especially of the SearchResearch kind), the little details of the Challenge turn out to be important. This is especially the case when you’re trying to figure out where a particular picture has b…
Flies, bees, and golf tees… It’s a surprise to things where you don’t expect them. This is always the case, although sometimes you need to know a bit about the context to see the thing “out of place.” For instance, here’s a fairly famous painting …
Every so often you pause and say “What??” This happens to me fairly often, perhaps more often than you’d think. One of those times was a couple of week ago when I was using the “facilities” and saw this in my field of view: “That’s odd…” I thought,…